# datamade.us > AI-optimized mirror of datamade.us containing 24 pages totalling 14,600 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://datamade.us/. Last updated: 2026-06-16T04:05:48.425Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [DataMade is a data and web consultancy for civic society.](/content/site-root.html): DataMade is a data and web consultancy for civic society. We support our partners in working toward democracy, justice, and equity. (282 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Join the DataMade team! (Applications closed)](/content/blog/hiring/join-the-datamade-team/index.html): Do you want to build mission-driven technology? Do you want to engineer fresh ideas about civic tech? Do you want to extract meaningful insights from data? We’re looking for a full-time developer to start in December 2021 or January 2022. (1,204 words) - [blog/chi-block-builder/index.html](/content/blog/chi-block-builder/index.html) (1 words) - [Join the DataMade team! (Application closed)](/content/blog/hiring/join-the-datamade-team-2024/index.html): Do you want to build mission-driven technology? Do you want to engineer fresh ideas about civic tech? Do you want to extract meaningful insights from data? We’re looking for a full-time, Chicago-based developer to start in August or September 2024. (1,227 words) - [Join the DataMade team! (Application closed)](/content/blog/hiring/join-the-datamade-team-2022/index.html): Do you want to build mission-driven technology? Do you want to engineer fresh ideas about civic tech? Do you want to extract meaningful insights from data? We’re looking for a full-time developer to start in September or October 2022. (1,212 words) - [Towards a less harmful data practice: The DataMade way](/content/blog/towards-a-less-harmful-data-practice/index.html): Data can be a powerful tool for illuminating our world, but it can also reproduce bias, perpetuate harm, and subvert truth. A significant amount of our work at DataMade involves making data available, accessible, and intelligible; we therefore must take steps to minimize the biases, harm, and fallacies that can come from utilizing data irresponsibly. (1,050 words) - [Join the DataMade team! (application closed)](/content/blog/hiring/join-the-datamade-team-2026/index.html): Do you want to build mission-driven technology? Do you want to engineer fresh ideas about civic tech? Do you want to extract meaningful insights from data? We’re looking for a full-time, Chicago-based developer to start in April or May 2026. (1,227 words) - [Our Process: Building An Affordable Housing Lending Map](/content/blog/building-cics-impact-map/index.html): We partnered with the Community Investment Corporation to develop an easy way for them to visualize the affordable rental housing loans and grants they issue. This manifested in an internal map which is populated with real time, interactive data. It also provides a more granular view of the communities, projects, and properties associated with the loans they make. (1,388 words) - [A new era for DataMade and Forest](/content/blog/a-new-era/index.html): Over the past twelve years, it has been my great privilege to help DataMade grow to an established, successful company and an important actor in Chicago’s civil society. At the end of January 2025, I will be leaving this mighty and hearty company. As I leave for my next endeavor, a reflection on lessons learned at DataMade. (766 words) - [Our Week at DjangoCon 2025](/content/blog/django-con-2025/index.html): We spent our fall retreat in Chicago, downtown at DjangoCon 2025. Here's how it went. (1,085 words) - [Modernizing our mapping stack with Maplibre](/content/blog/using-maplibre/index.html): A significant reason for website failures is their reliance on external platforms, which frequently change or may even be shut down. However, a promising development in the past few years has been the emergence of GL-powered maps that operate entirely in the front-end browser. As a result, we have adopted Maplibre-gl as our preferred choice for data-rich maps and are in the process of transitioning many of our projects to this technology. (969 words) - [Our small team created a shared strategic vision–and you can, too!](/content/blog/our-small-team-created-a-shared-strategic-vision/index.html): In April 2025, the DataMade team gathered in Chicago to discuss and define strategies for the first year in a new era for our company. In two days, partners, mid-level staff, and junior staff collectively created and prioritized a list of specific goals and planned how we’d pursue them in the next year. For other teams interested in setting and executing strategic work in a way that’s inclusive of all experience levels, here’s what worked for us. (696 words) - [Working against systems of oppression](/content/blog/working-against-systems-of-oppression/index.html): Last summer, DataMade made a commitment to examine the ways in which our work has supported systems that destroy Black lives, particularly policing and incarceration. As we wrote then, this is slow work, and much of it is quiet work rooted in reflection, study, and relationship building. A year later, we’d like to share an update on the steps we have taken so far and reaffirm our commitment to continue working to redirect power from oppressive systems to those that support democracy, justice, and equity for all. (613 words) - [Equitable Financial Incentives](/content/our-work/mpc-efi/index.html): View **incentive program spending in Chicago** and recommendations to make them more equitable. (216 words) - [Chi Block Builder](/content/our-work/chi-block-builder/index.html): Browse all City-owned vacant surplus property in Chicago and **apply to buy it**. (295 words) - [Preserving Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing](/content/our-work/preserve-noah/index.html): A mapping tool designed to facilitate evidence-based decision-making in **preservation strategies for affordable multifamily rental housing**. (243 words) - [Under Whose Command? Human rights abuses under Myanmar's military rule](/content/our-work/sfm-myanmar/index.html): A powerful, mobile optimized data visualization and story detailing **institutionalised human rights abuses** by Myanmar's military. (300 words) - [Partnership for Land Use Insights](/content/our-work/land-use-insights/index.html): We visualized how **local governments regulate land use** to provide the actionable insights leaders need to achieve their climate, equity, affordability goals (216 words) - [National Wastewater Surveillance System Schema](/content/our-work/nwss-schema-validation/index.html): A structured schema to help **validate submissions** of COVID test results in wastewater samples **at scale**. (218 words) - [Chicago Recovery Plan](/content/our-work/crp-transparency/index.html): Transparency site showing the **impact of over 30 programs** under the Chicago Recovery Plan and what neighborhoods they are active in. (271 words) - [Chicago Arts Census](/content/our-work/chicago-arts-census/index.html): We built and helped design a web portal to **survey art workers in Chicago** (161 words) - [Community Investment Corporation's Lending Impact Map](/content/our-work/cic-impact-map/index.html): An interactive map showing the impact of Community Investment Corporation’s **lending for affordable rental housing** in Chicagoland. (189 words) - [Understanding Employment Quality in Illinois](/content/our-work/illinois-employment/index.html): An interactive visualization that shows **how different job features influence employment quality** based on surveys of 3,500 workers across Illinois. 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